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• TITLE: Information Fusion for Process Acquisition in the Operating Room

  AUTHORS: Thomas Neumuth, Christian Meißner

  KEYWORDS: surgical procedure, workflow, proces modeling, operating room, computer-assisted surgery, information fusion

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol.2 No.4B, January 16, 2013

  ABSTRACT: The recognition of surgical processes in the operating room is an emerging research field in medical engineering. We present the design and implementation of a instrument localization system that is based on information fusion strategies to enhance its recognition power. The system was implemented using RFID technology. It monitored the presence of surgical tools in the interventional site and the instrument tray and combined the measured information by applying redundant, complementary, and cooperative information fusion strategy to achieve a more comprehensive model of the current situation. An evaluation study was performed that showed a correct classification rate of 97% for the system.